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The French Connection is the nickname of a forward line that played for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League from 1972 until 1979. The line consisted of Hall of Famer Gilbert Perreault at centre and All-Stars Rick Martin and René Robert at left wing and right wing, respectively.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990, and the Sabres retired his number 11 in the same year, having been the only player to ever wear number 11 for the Buffalo Sabres; his #11 was the first number retired by the Sabres. [5] When his French Connection linemates' numbers were retired, Perreault's #11 was lowered and raised back ...
Lesley Blanch (6 June 1904 – 7 May 2007) was a British writer and traveller. She is best known for The Wilder Shores of Love, about Isabel Burton (who married the Arabist and explorer Richard), Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty who ended up living in the Syrian desert with a Bedouin chieftain), Aimée du Buc de Rivéry (a French convent woman captured by pirates and ...
In 2010, in commemoration of the Sabres' 40th season, The Buffalo News ranked Martin number 4 out of the top 40 Sabres of all time, while he was voted #5 by fans. [8] After his death in 2011, the Sabres honored his memory by painting the number 7, the number Martin wore for most of his career with Buffalo, behind each goal at the HSBC Arena for ...
Tony Lo Bianco, best known for playing the mobster Sal Boca in 1971’s The French Connection, has died.He was 87. In a statement to Fox News, Lo Bianco’s representative confirmed that the actor ...
The French Connection members led the Sabres in scoring by finishing 1–2–3 in both goals and points, although none of them played as many as 75 of the team's 80 games. [47] Perreault's eight game-winning goals was fifth highest in the NHL for the season, [ 52 ] although he only played 68 games, he finished ninth in the league in scoring ...
Key creative inspirations include historical figure T.E. Lawrence and his 1962 Oscar-winning biopic “Lawrence of Arabia,” and Lesley Blanch’s 1960 novel “The Sabres of Paradise,” which ...
Robert was born in Trois-Rivières, on December 31, 1948. [2] As a youth, he played in the 1961 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with Trois-Rivières. [3] While playing for the Trois-Rivieres Maple Leafs of the Quebec Junior A Hockey League in 1967–68, he set the QJAHL record with 69 goals in 49 games, a record that has subsequently been broken. [4]